This data collection examines the interrelationships among
drug/alcohol use, childhood sexual or physical abuse, and encounters
with the juvenile justice system. To identify high-risk individuals,
youths in a Tampa juvenile detention center were given urine tests and
were asked a series of questions about past sexual and/or physical
abuse. Official record searches were also conducted 6, 12, and 18
months afterward to measure later encounters with the juvenile or
criminal justice systems. The inv... (more info)

This data collection examines the interrelationships among
drug/alcohol use, childhood sexual or physical abuse, and encounters
with the juvenile justice system. To identify high-risk individuals,
youths in a Tampa juvenile detention center were given urine tests and
were asked a series of questions about past sexual and/or physical
abuse. Official record searches were also conducted 6, 12, and 18
months afterward to measure later encounters with the juvenile or
criminal justice systems. The investigators used the youths' urine
test results as the primary measure of drug use. On the basis of their
review of Florida's statutes, the investigators developed outcome
measures for the following offense categories: violent felonies
(murder/manslaughter, robbery, sex offenses, aggravated assault),
property felonies (arson, burglary, auto theft, larceny/theft, stolen
property offenses, damaging property offenses), drug felonies (drug
offenses), violent misdemeanors (sex offenses, nonaggravated assault),
property misdemeanors (larceny/theft, stolen property offenses,
damaging property offenses), drug misdemeanors (drug offenses), and
public disorder misdemeanors (public disorder offenses, trespassing
offenses). Other variables measured physical and sexual abuse,
emotional and psychological functioning, and prior drug use.
Demographic variables on sex, race, age, and education are also
contained in the data. The individual is the unit of analysis.

Access Notes

One or more data files in this study are set up in a non-standard format, such as card image format. Users
may need help converting these files before they can be used for analysis.

Universe:
All individuals admitted to a regional detention center in
the Tampa Bay area.

Data Types:
event/transaction data,
survey data

Methodology

Sample:
Initial interviews were completed with 398 Florida youth
detainees admitted to a regional detention center in the Tampa Bay
area who agreed to participate and were not transferred to the center
from another secure facility. All female detainees and a random sample
of half of the male detainees were invited to participate in the
study.

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: